Civil War

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Across
  1. 2. Union military post in South Carolina which was taken over by the Confederacy in 1861.
  2. 4. Place in Virginia where John Brown led a raid on a federal arsenal.
  3. 6. A law that allowed voters in Kansas and Nebraska to choose whether to allow slavery or not.
  4. 9. southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861.
  5. 11. Courthouse
  6. 12. War between the North and South.
  7. 13. Speech given by Abraham Lincoln at the dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery*His three minute speech inspired the North to keep fighting for a united country and the end of slavery.
  8. 14. A series of agreements passed by Congress in 1820-1821 to maintain the balance of power between slave states and free states. Missouri was admitted as a slave state and Maine was admitted as a free state to keep the balance of powe
  9. 16. ship made of iron
  10. 18. Union strategy for winning by "squeezing" on all sides* The Union blocked the South's coastline and Mississippi River to stop movement of people and supplies in the South.
  11. 19. where Civil War ended on April 9, 1865, when Lee surrendered to Grant.
  12. 20. President of the United States of America during the Civil War; born in Kentucky; helped preserve the United States by leading the country in the defeat of the Confederacy; against slavery; freed slaves; assassinated by John Wilkes Booth
  13. 21. U.S. Supreme Court decision which determined that slaves (Dred Scott) could not sue in federal court because they did not have the rights of citizenship.
  14. 23. Novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that showed the horrors of slavery to Northerners.
  15. 25. Rapid-fire gun capable of shooting 600 rounds per minute.
  16. 26. Turning point of the Civil War that made it clear the North would win.
Down
  1. 1. of Antietam
  2. 3. General of the Confederacy considered to be one of the greatest generals of all time*He was against slavery but didn't want to fight against his home state of Virginia. He also believed in states' rights.
  3. 5. Proclamation
  4. 7. The fall of Vicksburg, Mississippi, to General Ulysses S. Grant's army on July 4th, 1863, after 48 days of seige
  5. 8. Condition of being owned by, and forced to work for someone else.
  6. 10. Slave states that remained in the Union (Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware).*Lincoln did not call for abolition (free all slaves) at the beginning of the war because these states had slaves and would fight for the Union.
  7. 13. for the South; got his nickname because he refused to retreat during battle - he held his position like a stone wall.
  8. 15. To leave or withdraw
  9. 17. War battle in which 25,000 men were killed or wounded
  10. 22. freeing slaves in Union-controlled Confederate states
  11. 24. The march of an army of 62,000 men from Atlanta toward Savannah, Georgia which left a path of almost total destruction. *It is often cited as the first example of total war.
  12. 27. United States (especially the northern states during the American Civil War)